A private club for
the incurably curious

Since 1348, a small society has gathered in a villa between Florence and Siena to do two things exceptionally well: reopen the mysteries history left unfinished, and drink beautifully while doing it.

We are not a restaurant, nor a wine club, nor a museum. We are a standing invitation — extended, quietly, to those who prefer their evenings with a little intrigue and a great deal of Chianti.

Neither restaurant,
nor wine club,
nor museum.

Club Della Veritas is a standing invitation — extended quietly to those who prefer their evenings with a little intrigue and a great deal of Chianti.

We gather because we believe the best dinner conversation is one that matters. That a cold case shared over a warm table draws something true out of the people seated at it.

That in wine, there is truth. And in truth, there is always more to find.

Chi ha rubato
la Gioconda?

August 21, 1911. The Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. For 28 hours, no one noticed. This evening investigates the theory of a commissioned theft — and whether the returned painting was even the original.

Wine chosen
for the crime.

The Crime Collection is Club Della Veritas's private label — a curated range of Tuscan wines, each selected or produced to mirror the emotional landscape of a specific case.

A wine for a crime of passion is not the same as a wine for a crime of calculation. Our sommelier works backwards from the case file to the glass.

Each bottle is available exclusively to members and event guests. Not sold publicly. Not discussed publicly.

It began with a plague
and a locked room.

In autumn 1348, as the Black Death moved through Tuscany, a small group of Florentine merchants, physicians and scholars retreated to a villa in the hills of Chianti. They brought wine. They brought their unfinished cases. And they made an agreement: to investigate, honestly, without the interference of the Church or the State.

They called themselves the Società della Verità. The Society of Truth. The name survived. The original members did not.

The most dangerous
man to steal from
in all of Europe.

Paolo Nassi did not choose the Society. The Society chose him — as it had chosen his father, his grandfather, and his great-great-grandfather before him. The Nassi family has presided over Club Della Veritas since 1891, when the fourth-generation succession passed from the great Giuseppe Nassi to his son with a letter, a key to the Archive, and a single instruction: "Keep the truth. The rest will follow."

Today Paolo serves as Commendatore — the Society's host, arbiter, and, when the occasion demands it, its most formidable investigator. He is the only person alive to have won the Society's biannual Sleuth Competition three times. The trophy sits in his office. He does not discuss it.

He is also, according to Interpol's International Art Theft Tribunal, the most frequently consulted private expert witness in Europe. He has testified in cases spanning Florence, Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, and Geneva. His record: forty-three testimonies, forty-three convictions.

For seven centuries,
the Society has gathered
here to solve the unsolvable.

The founding agreement of 1348 specified two conditions for every gathering: that the wine be exceptional, and that something be investigated. In 678 years, neither condition has been relaxed.

What has changed is the scale. The earliest Society evenings were seven people around a single table with a single candle and a case file that had been puzzling Florence for years. Today, Club Della Veritas hosts private events of up to 200 guests across the estate grounds — in the glass pavilion, on the hilltop terrace, in the courtyard beneath the villa — each one built around the same unchanging structure: great wine, Michelin-calibre cuisine, and a true crime experience that the table must resolve before midnight.

The format is not a dinner with entertainment. It is an investigation with dinner. The distinction matters — and guests who have attended once understand it immediately.